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Strategic Planning - Weird Science, Featuring Melek - Melek, Average Paragon
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $270.58
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Commander

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Melek, Izzet Paragon

Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your library, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Melek, Izzet Paragon (c20) 220

Commander

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Artifacts

Quantity: 9Price: $62.37
Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Darksteel Ingot (cm2) 184
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (dom) 215
Izzet Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Artifact
Izzet Signet (moc) 362
Primal Amulet

Artifact
Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243
Pyromancer's Goggles

{T}: Add {R}. When that mana is spent to cast a red instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Pyromancer's Goggles (c21) 259
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
Sphinx-Bone Wand

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand. If you do, Sphinx-Bone Wand deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Artifact
Sphinx-Bone Wand (ddj) 29
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (scd) 285

Artifacts

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Creatures

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Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
Bloodwater Entity

Flying Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) When Bloodwater Entity enters, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature
Bloodwater Entity (2x2) 185
Charmbreaker Devils

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Charmbreaker Devils gets +4/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Charmbreaker Devils (c21) 162
Docent of Perfection

Creature
Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (emn) 56Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (emn) 56
Galvanoth

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's an instant or sorcery spell.

Creature
Galvanoth (ddj) 10
Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Electromancer (ncc) 341
Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Guttersnipe (scd) 145
Hypersonic Dragon

Flying, haste You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. (You may cast them any time you could cast an instant.)

Creature
Hypersonic Dragon (ima) 201
Izzet Chemister

Haste {R}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. {1}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Izzet Chemister: Cast any number of cards exiled with Izzet Chemister without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Izzet Chemister (clb) 798
Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (2x2) 64
Young Pyromancer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Creature
Young Pyromancer (j22) 626

Creatures

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Enchantments

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Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (c19) 88
Swarm Intelligence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Enchantment
Swarm Intelligence (c21) 130
The Mirari Conjecture

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand. II — Return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. III — Until end of turn, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Enchantment
The Mirari Conjecture (plst) DOM-57
Thousand-Year Storm

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Enchantment
Thousand-Year Storm (2x2) 286

Enchantments

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Instants

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Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (a25) 44
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (afc) 79
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (moc) 273
Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Instant
Comet Storm (cmr) 411
Counterflux

This spell can't be countered. Counter target spell you don't control. Overload {1}{U}{U}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Counterflux (c15) 214
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (dmr) 48
Firemind's Foresight

Search your library for an instant card with mana value 3, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then repeat this process for instant cards with mana values 2 and 1. Then shuffle.

Instant
Firemind's Foresight (dds) 21
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (dmr) 51
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Increasing Vengeance (c19) 147
Insidious Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • You may choose new targets for target spell. • Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Insidious Will (kld) 52
Izzet Charm

Choose one — • Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}. • Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature. • Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Instant
Izzet Charm (2x2) 230
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (2x2) 117
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Reiterate

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Reiterate (tsr) 182
Reverberate

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Reverberate (m13) 145
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (c21) 179
Turnabout

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

Instant
Turnabout (dmr) 70
Twincast

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Twincast (m10) 78

Instants

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Lands

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Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (moc) 397
Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters tapped. When Halimar Depths enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Halimar Depths (afc) 244
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Izzet Boilerworks

Izzet Boilerworks enters tapped. When Izzet Boilerworks enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (brc) 188
Izzet Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Izzet Guildgate (c19) 253
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 255
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As Steam Vents enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (grn) 257
Swiftwater Cliffs

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Swiftwater Cliffs (mom) 273
Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Epiphany (moc) 433
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (moc) 439

Lands

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Planeswalkers

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Jaya Ballard

+1: Add {R}{R}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant or sorcery spells. +1: Discard up to three cards, then draw that many cards. −8: You get an emblem with "You may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead."

Planeswalker
Jaya Ballard (c21) 175

Planeswalkers

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Sorceries

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (scd) 124
Bonus Round

Until end of turn, whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, that player copies it and may choose new targets for the copy.

Sorcery
Bonus Round (bbd) 56
Doublecast

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Sorcery
Doublecast (jmp) 307
Epic Experiment

Exile the top X cards of your library. You may cast instant and sorcery spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Epic Experiment (c21) 216
Jaya's Immolating Inferno

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Jaya's Immolating Inferno deals X damage to each of up to three targets.

Sorcery
Jaya's Immolating Inferno (cmr) 415
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Merchant Scroll

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Merchant Scroll (8ed) 91
Mind's Desire

Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Sorcery
Mind's Desire (c21) 123
Mizzium Mortars

Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control. Overload {3}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzium Mortars (clb) 803
Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery. Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (plst) C15-29
Mystic Retrieval

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Mystic Retrieval (c19) 90
Past in Flames

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Past in Flames (mm3) 105
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (ncc) 229
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (j22) 63
Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sorcery
Rite of Replication (c21) 128
Spelltwine

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Sorcery
Spelltwine (c17) 94
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (scd) 167

Sorceries

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